Author(s):
Lisa Kolovich
, and
Sakina Shibuya

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
28
July
2016

ISBN: 9781475519983

Gender budgeting uses fiscal policies to promote gender equality and women's advancement, but is struggling to take hold in the Middle East and Central Asia. We provide an overview of two gender budgeting efforts i...

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
30
January
2009

ISBN: 9781451807912

This paper discusses Côte d'Ivoire's preliminary assessment of eligibility for assistance under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. The March 2007 Ouagadougou Political Accord provides a roadma...

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
27
September
2011

ISBN: 9781463904852

The reports highlights that, even though the Russian economy has started reviving from the crisis, growth has been moderate and inflation high. Executive Directors have advised that the focus should be on reducing...

Author(s):
Christoph Trebesch

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
February
2009

ISBN: 9781451871760

This paper proposes a new empirical measure of cooperative versus conflictual crisis resolution following sovereign default and debt distress. The index of government coerciveness is presented as a proxy for excusa...

Series: IMF Staff Country Reports

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
15
May
2007

ISBN: 9781451835137

This paper examines the consideration of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe's debt relief at the completion point under the enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and Debt Relief unde...

Publication Date:
12
June
2014

ISBN: 9781498327664

After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the po...

Publication Date:
20
March
2013

ISBN: 9781484330647

The &#x201c;middle-income trap&#x201d; is the phenomenon of hitherto rapidly growing economies stagnating at middle-income levels and failing to graduate into the ranks of high-income countries. In this study we ex...

ISBN: 9781451982107

While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established g...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
June
2008

ISBN: 9781451870046

This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, se...